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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros

Every Tuesday, I'll be posting the opening paragraph (maybe two) of a
book I decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s). Feel free to
grab the banner and play along. This week's "intro" is from a review copy, so please realize that the final copy could be different.

"The first thing you must know about me is that I am colossally fat. When I knew you I was what one might call plump but I am no longer plump. I eat what I want & furthermore I eat whatever I want. For years I have made very little effort to reduce the amount that I eat for I have seen no cause to. Despite this I am neither immobile nor bedridden but I do feel winded when I walk more than six or seven steps, & I do feel very shy and sort of encased in something as if I were a cello or an expensive gun.

"I have no way of knowing exactly what I weigh but I estimate that it is between five and six hundred pounds. The last time I went to a doctor's office was years ago and back then I weighed four hundred eighty pounds and they had to put me on a special scale. The doctor looked at me & told me I was surely on a path toward early death."

Would you continue reading this one? I definitely plan to, but am curious why (even through it is and ARC) that both "and", and the ampersand..." &" were used in the first two paragraphs?

". . . a cello or an expensive gun"? Since I've been fighting a weight problem all my adult life, I don't know if this would be horrible or an incentive to stay on my never-ending diet. :) Truly, I don't think I would read it.

I've been waiting for this one; I'm first on the library hold list. I never know when reading ARCs how many of the grammatical oddities will make it into the finished product. This does seem strange -- the use of both.

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